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In the post below, Gerry Moore — Family Matters Co-Chair, CEO of SNAICC — National Voice for our Children and a Yuin man — outlines what action is needed at state and national levels to address this national crisis, where Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children now make up 35 per cent of all children in out - of - home care.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children make up less than 6 per cent of children aged 10 - 17 years, but they make up 54 per cent of children in prison in Australia.

In Australia, about 43 per cent of children in foster care are being cared for by non-kinship foster parents, and nearly 47 per cent are in kinship foster care (with their extended family).

By the 1980s, a report issued by the Canadian Council on Social Development found Indigenous children in care were over-represented and accounted for 60 — 70 per cent of all children in care in Saskatchewan, 50 — 60 per cent in Manitoba, and 40 — 50 per cent in Alberta.

However, the fact that 90 per cent of the children in P.S. 397 come from low income families would never be taken into consideration as the corporate reformers would have you believe that poverty is never a factor for low achievement.

The completion rate of primary school has also increased, with 76 per cent of children in GPE partnered countries completing school, compared with 63 per cent in 2002.

showed half of seven - year - olds are doing nowhere near enough exercise with only 51 per cent of children in the study meeting CMO guidelines.

With 75 per ‑ cent of children in the UK spending less time outside than prison inmates (survey of 2,000 people commissioned by Persil as part of its «Dirt is Good» campaign) it's going to take more than just schools to get young people outside enough to reap the benefits; benefits that include not just self - development, but also increased academic attainment — one of the core functions of schools.

Of this number, 23 per cent of children in reception were considered overweight, with 10 per cent obese.

Teachers also said they believe 39 per cent of children in the UK leave primary school disliking sport and 42 per cent do not enjoy PE lessons in school.

By converting the Timss scores to the scores used in the key stage 2 maths tests, known as Sats, the report estimates that to match the performance of pupils in the top five countries — Singapore, Hong Kong, South Korea, Taiwan and Japan — 90 per cent of children in England would need to reach the expected standard in the English Sats maths test, with an average scaled score of 107.

New figures, published in July by the School Food Trust and the Local Authority Caterers Association (LACA), show that an average of 44.1 per cent of children in primary schools and 37.6 per cent of pupils in secondary school opted for school meals in the 2010/11 year, up from 41.4 and 35.8 per cent respectively in the previous year.

By the age of 16, stress at school was a worry for 83 per cent of children in England and 80 per cent were worrying about their future.

Research shows that obese children and adolescents are more likely to become obese adults and also develop various diseases such as type 2 diabetes, and a worrying 30 per cent of children in England are now classed as overweight or obese.

The report found that 47 per cent of children born into the poorest families achieved a good level of development by age five, compared to 59 per cent of children in London.

The latest figures, for 2014/15, show that 19.1 per cent of children in Year 6 (aged 10 - 11) were obese and a further 14.2 per cent were overweight.

Additionally, 4.8 per cent of children in London will fail to get any of their preferred choices, compared to 1.8 per cent in the North - East.

According to figures from the Office of National Statistics, 10 per cent of children in Great Britain aged between 5 and 16 have a mental health problem, with 4 per cent of children suffering from an emotional disorder such as depression.

Overall, the researchers estimated that for 42 per cent of the children in the study, a new mutation in a gene important for healthy development is likely to be the underlying cause of their condition.

Roughly 1 per cent of children in the US population is affected by autism spectrum disorder (ASD).

One explanation was that intestinal worms, which infect around 80 per cent of children in poor tropical countries, might change the body's immune responses.

Thirty - six per cent of children in the camp say they've been physically abused by citizens and 25.2 % say they've been verbally abused.

The Child Poverty Action Group has found that there are currently 3.6 million children living in poverty today — 27 per cent of all children in the UK.

«If you can raise the meter for ten per cent of children in a school, you can do it for the other 90 per cent as well.»

Last year St Columba's Lochside Mission and Outreach youth programme provided more than 150 lunches daily to local children after church staff learned that the 95 per cent of children in one local primary school, who receive free school lunches and breakfasts during the school term, were at risk of hunger during the summer holidays.

Not exact matches

Parents hoping to teach their children the power of compound interest on their savings today will have a harder time than parents in the 1970s and 1980s, when interest paid on savings accounts soared above 10 per cent compared with rates today, when even the highest - paying savings accounts sit in the low single digits.

Fifty - nine per cent of adult Canadians are either overweight or obese and, among children, obesity rates have almost tripled in the last 25 years.

«Rather than waiting until after your death to leave the company to your adult child — who might have to pay 55 cents in tax on every $ 1 of its value — you want to start transferring a minority stake now, let's say 30 % of the stock.»

According to the Growing Gap, a study by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, «In 2004, the richest 10 per cent of families raising children earned 82 times more than the poorest 10 per cent — almost triple the ratio of 1976, when they earned 31 times more.»

In other words take from all families with children and give to 15 per cent of high - income families with children.

NDP commitments include a two point cut in the small business tax rate (already implemented by the Conservatives); extension of the accelerated capital cost allowance for two years (already implemented by the Conservatives (but with a different phase in); an innovation tax credit for machinery used in research and development; an additional one cent of gas tax for the provinces for infrastructure; a transit infrastructure fund; increased funding for social housing; a major child care initiative; and, increasing ODA funding to 0.7 per cent of Gross National Income (GNI).

NDP promises include a two point cut in the small business tax rate (already implemented in the budget by the Conservatives); extension of the accelerated capital cost allowance for two years (also already implemented by the Conservatives); an innovation tax credit for machinery used in research and development; an additional one cent of gas tax for the provinces for infrastructure; a transit infrastructure fund; increased funding for social housing; a major child care initiative; increasing ODA funding to 0.7 per cent of Gross National Income (GNI); and restoring the 6 % annual escalator to the Canada Health Transfer.

The statement comes after growing concern that increased demand for cobalt is fuelling exploitation of children and environmental destruction in the Democratic Republic of Congo, which accounts for 60 per cent of world supply.

Of the children in care who experienced sexualized violence, 64 per cent were Aboriginal girls.

The research by the Marriage Foundation found in the north - east of England and Wales, nearly 60 per cent of children were born to parents who were not married.

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«The inequitable distribution of the national revenue; the disparity in the scale of salaries (some dispose of emoluments which are an insult to the poverty of the country, while the immense majority receives a miserable pittance); the fact that a bare two per cent of the active population owns seventy per cent of the arable land; the system of recruiting our agricultural laborers, who do not even enjoy legal status; the fact that hundreds of thousands of school - age children lack basic education; the disintegration of the family; the growing immorality everywhere — all this demands bold and definitive change.»

She also says that a random survey of women in Los Angeles in 1986 found that sixty - two per cent had been sexually abused as children.20 The churches have to challenge this abuse and the culture that underlies it.

In June this year, the NSPCC and the Children's Commission published an extensive report titled I wasn't sure if it was normal to watch it... The research undertaken by Middlesex University included a survey of children aged 11 - 16 and showed that by the age of 12, 28 per cent had viewed pornography and by the age of 15 that had risen to 65 pChildren's Commission published an extensive report titled I wasn't sure if it was normal to watch it... The research undertaken by Middlesex University included a survey of children aged 11 - 16 and showed that by the age of 12, 28 per cent had viewed pornography and by the age of 15 that had risen to 65 pchildren aged 11 - 16 and showed that by the age of 12, 28 per cent had viewed pornography and by the age of 15 that had risen to 65 per cent.

World Vision released a report on Thursday that revealed that 67 per cent of displaced children in southern Syria suffer violence at school and that nine in ten children were getting no support in school to deal with their emotional trauma and social isolation.

53 children in the US have died from the flu as of the end of January and 80 per cent of those children hadn't had a flu jab according to the US Centre for Disease Control and Prevention.

While no accurate figures are available, we can conservatively estimate that approximately 40 per cent of all child care in the United States takes place in churches.

Psychosis / most psychiatric illnesses often arise in adolescence or in early adult life however 75 per cent of children with mental health disorders / issues do not get the help they need — I fell into that 75 per cent, I was misdiagnosed by a doctor and then the self - induced trance - like altered state of consciousness induced by intense / deep meditation and prayer coupled with the theology about how prayer and God work in a Christian's life (more on this below) just pushed me right over the edge.

Eastern European Jews (who constitute some 90 per cent of America's Jewish population) born here in the «20s have children who grew to maturity in the «60s.

Two - thirds of the minimum wage workers, who are earning an average across this country of five dollars and fifty cents an hour (they're in this hotel today, and you'll pass them in the hall over and over again), are single mothers with three children.

I would not give one cent to the collection plate if i attended service on Sundays in the catholic church, why defend them, they don't deserve it, to make someone elses life miserable for the rest of those poor innocent childrens life.

The report also found that one in five young parents worry about the prospect of their child self - harming or feeling suicidal and only 10 per cent of parents would turn to a children's charity or a church for support.

Figures published by Adoption Match show that in August 2016, there were 366 children on the register compared with 825 at the beginning of July this year - 28 per cent of those had BAME ethnicity.

The children's charity also found that although eight out of ten parents in a YouGov poll said that they knew what to say to their child to keep them safe online, only 28 per cent had actually mentioned privacy settings to them and just 20 per cent discussed location settings.

While it is true that 80 to 90 per cent of all births out of wedlock are to black teen - agers, and that half of all black children live in female - headed families, it is also the case that black males form the largest unemployed group in the total population, and are the lowest - paid of employed males.